Frank Belcher: Or View From A Truck
JUST KEEP TRUCKIN' , AMERICA…..AND DON’T THINK !
(Or View From A Truck)
by Frank Belcher
PREFACE
What is a truck ? Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Fifth Edition) published by G. & C. Merriam Company in 1947, among several definitions, calls it: "Any strong horse-drawn or automotive vehicle for heavy or long-distance hauling."
Indeed, such automotive vehicles for heavy or long-distance hauling is what we see in great numbers today, in all sizes, colors and shapes. They are seen rolling along at a steady pace, and in many cases speeding by us on interstate highways, two-lane roads, and country roads. With "Big Wheels” rolling just inches away from our easily broken bodies when we pass a truck, or are overtaken by one at seventy miles an hour, we seldom think of danger. But it’s there.
Taking a big truck down the road is like steering an ocean liner down a highway. …show more content…
Homogenized, robotized, scheduled, programmed brain-dead people are the norm in common carrier management, who with their noses in the computer screen and fingers clattering over the keyboard like a honky-tonk piano player, illiterate except for the computer, try every way they can to robotize drivers.
Webster’s Dictionary defines the word “robot” as: “artificially manufactured persons, mechanically efficient but devoid of sensibility; hence, a brutal, efficient, insensitive person; an automation.” Is that not what many of us are becoming today, and what our present lower and higher educational systems are manufacturing as fast as they can ? And have been since the 1970’s ? The question remains whether this is accidental or planned, and if the latter, by whom ? Beware of “ wolves in sheep’s clothing” ! Think about this. Or, just keep truckin’ and don’t think
(Or View From A Truck)
by Frank Belcher
PREFACE
What is a truck ? Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Fifth Edition) published by G. & C. Merriam Company in 1947, among several definitions, calls it: "Any strong horse-drawn or automotive vehicle for heavy or long-distance hauling."
Indeed, such automotive vehicles for heavy or long-distance hauling is what we see in great numbers today, in all sizes, colors and shapes. They are seen rolling along at a steady pace, and in many cases speeding by us on interstate highways, two-lane roads, and country roads. With "Big Wheels” rolling just inches away from our easily broken bodies when we pass a truck, or are overtaken by one at seventy miles an hour, we seldom think of danger. But it’s there.
Taking a big truck down the road is like steering an ocean liner down a highway. …show more content…
Homogenized, robotized, scheduled, programmed brain-dead people are the norm in common carrier management, who with their noses in the computer screen and fingers clattering over the keyboard like a honky-tonk piano player, illiterate except for the computer, try every way they can to robotize drivers.
Webster’s Dictionary defines the word “robot” as: “artificially manufactured persons, mechanically efficient but devoid of sensibility; hence, a brutal, efficient, insensitive person; an automation.” Is that not what many of us are becoming today, and what our present lower and higher educational systems are manufacturing as fast as they can ? And have been since the 1970’s ? The question remains whether this is accidental or planned, and if the latter, by whom ? Beware of “ wolves in sheep’s clothing” ! Think about this. Or, just keep truckin’ and don’t think